Directorate Change

Erskine Bowles Nominated for Election to GM Board of Directors, 
                  Lafley Leaves Due To Antitrust Requirement 
 
    DETROIT, April 25 -- General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) Chairman 
and Chief Executive Officer Rick Wagoner announced today that Erskine Bowles 
has been nominated for election to the GM Board of Directors.  Bowles will 
stand for election, along with other GM directors, at the GM annual meeting of 
stockholders on June 7 in Wilmington, Del.   
    GM's proxy statement for the annual meeting, which will include Bowles 
among the 12 nominees for election to the GM Board, will be mailed to 
stockholders on April 29.   
    Bowles, 59, is chairman of Erskine Bowles & Co., LLC and serves as senior 
advisor at Carousel Capital, a private investment firm he co-founded in 1996.  
He was recently appointed the deputy special envoy for Tsunami relief by the 
United Nations.   
    'Erskine will bring to the GM Board a diverse and successful background in 
public service and business,' Wagoner said.   
    George Fisher, chairman of the board's Directors and Corporate Governance 
Committee, said, 'On behalf of the GM Board, we look forward to working with 
Erskine and know he will make valuable contributions to General Motors.' 
    Bowles previously served as general partner at Forstmann Little, a New 
York-based private equity firm from 1999 to 2001.  His public sector 
experience included the following U.S. government positions:  White House 
chief of staff from 1996 to 1998, deputy White House chief of staff from 1994 
to 1995 and administrator of the Small Business Administration from 1993 to 
1994.  Bowles currently serves on the board of directors for Cousins 
Properties Inc.  He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's from Columbia University, where he was 
a McKinsey scholar.   
    Wagoner also announced that GM Board member Alan G. (A.G.) Lafley resigned 
from the GM Board effective immediately.  Lafley is chairman, president and 
chief executive of Procter & Gamble Company. (NYSE: PG). 
    Lafley, who joined the GM Board in 2002, also serves on the board of 
directors of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE).  GM and GE compete in financial 
services.  Provisions of the U.S. Clayton Antitrust Act relative to 
interlocking directors require periodic assessment of whether, based on the 
revenues, competition between these companies could become significant.  Based 
on a recent assessment, the overlap of the two companies' financial services 
businesses has grown to the point that Lafley's membership on both boards will 
no longer qualify for the exemption for minor competition.  For that reason, 
Lafley has resigned his GM directorship effective immediately.   
    'General Motors has benefited greatly from A.G.'s service as director and 
I will personally miss his counsel,' Wagoner said.  'However, the regulations 
on this matter that has necessitated his resignation are quite clear in 
requiring prompt action.  He leaves the GM Board with our sincere thanks and 
best wishes.' 
    General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world's largest automaker, has been 
the global industry sales leader since 1931.  Founded in 1908, GM today 
employs about 321,000 people around the world.  It has manufacturing 
operations in 32 countries and its vehicles are sold in 200 countries.  In 
2004, GM sold nearly 9 million cars and trucks globally, up 4 percent and the 
second-highest total in the company's history.  GM's global headquarters are 
at the GM Renaissance Center in Detroit.  More information on GM can be found 
at http://www.gm.com . 
 
SOURCE  General Motors Corp. 
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